To God, truly, the giver and Architect of Forms, and it may be to the angels and higher intelligences, it belongs to have an affirmative knowledge of Forms immediately and from the first contemplation. But this assuredly is more than man can do, to whom it is granted only to proceed at first by negatives and at last to end in affirmatives, after exclusion has been exhausted. 2:15
For most of Book Two, Bacon had been discussing matters of science, in particular the details of heat. Rarely, at any point, does Bacon mention the idea of God. Generally, it seems that with most scientific experiments the unique and innovative ideas that are created are rarely identified with a spiritual element. At what point does religion start to answer the more advanced questions of science? Why is Bacon attributing the "knowledge of forms" to God? Is religion, i.e. God, an easy answer to the questions that we do not know about science, and what is the true separation between God and Science?
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